Reservoir cooking-stove



(No Model.)

J. WHITE.

RESERVOIR OOOKING STOVE. No. 461,538. Patented Oct. 20, 1891.

inventer] certain new and nseful Improve- NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WHITE, on MEMPHS, TENNESSEE.

RSERVOIR COOKING-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,538, dated October 20, 1891.

Application filed J'annary 29, 1891. Serial No. 379,526. (No model.)

T0 au w7wm it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Merhphis, in the cou nty of Shelby, State of Tennessee, have monts in Reservoir Cooking-Stoves, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accornpanying draw mgs.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in reservoir cookingstoves; and it has forits objects, among others, to provide an improved stove of this charac- 1er wherein the products of combustion are compelled to pass directly under the reservoir and not permitted to collect and fill the sides under and aronnd the reservoir, where they would impede the draft of the stove, but are confined in the reservoir-fiue formed by the bottom of the reservoir and reservoir-fiue strif s, which latter serve also as supports for the reservoir or reservoirs. I s0 constrnct these reservoir-fine strips that they conforxn to the shape or configuration of the bottom of the reservoir, whether round or fiat. I pro- Vide strips which divide the combustion-passage into three separate compartments, the course of the products of Combustion being controlled by a single damper; but in all cases being under the reservoir. I provide a strong draft beneath the reservoir, so that the products of combustion Will all be carried out of the stove and np the chimney, whereby the stove will not have to be cleaned ont; but I arrange the reservoir so that it maybe readil y removed when necessary for repairs or other purposes. \Vhen the oven is not in use, the darnper is thrown, so that the products of combustion starting from the fire-box will pass over the top oven-plate to the middle back fine throngh the. opening controlled by the damper, down the middle back fine to the reservoir-flue confined between 01' formed by the reservoir-fiue strips to the collar, and into the chimney. WVhen using the oven,the damper is placed in the other position, so that the products of combustion Will be forced fronn the tire-box over the top oven-place, clown the side back fines (the middle back fine being closed by the damper) to the bottom side fines, under the 0Ven to the bottom middle fine, back to the back middle fine, np the back middle fine to the reservoir-fiue, through the said fine under the reservoir, and throngh the collar t0 thechimney.

Other objects and advantages of the invenfion will hereinafter appear, and the novel v features thercof will be specifically defined by the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accorn panying drawifigs, which, With the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section from front to rear throngh a stove embodying myimprove ments. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section through the line zzof Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar section taken on the line y yof Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts thronghout the several views in which they occur.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the top of the stove; B, the fire-box; 0, the grate; D, the bottom of the stove; E, the top oven-plate; F, the front oven-place; G, thebottom oven-plate; H, the back men-plate; I, the middle back; J, the extension back, and K the closet bottom.

a is the oven, and b the warming-closet, the latter formed in the extension, as seen in Fig. 1.

0 is the collar on the extension back and designed to be connected with the chimney. (Net shown.)

The fire-box is separated from the passageway cl beneath the same by the hearth-plate 6, as seen in Fig. 1.

L are strips arranged between the oveu-back and the middle back and extended horizontally between the bottom of the stove and the bottom of the oven t0 nearly the front end of the oven, as seen in Fig. 1, diViding the space into three fines, a middle fiuefand two side fines g, as seen in Fig. 2. These flue-strips extend to the top.of the stove, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, and the opening 71 at the upper end of the center one, which communicaces With the fine beneath the reservoir, is controlled or covered and uncovered by the damper M, provided with a snitable handle 2', which extends through the side wall of the stove, as seen in Fig. 2. \Vhen the damper is closed, as seen in. Fig. 1, the course of the products of combnstion Will be throngh the side fines, down the back of the oven, and along the side fines at the nnder side thereof, and thence throngh the middle bottom fine and up tbe central back fine, and thence ont beneath the reservoir throngh the collar, and out the chimney. The course of the products of combustion is indicated by arrows in Fig. 1. XVhen the damper is open, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the course of the prodnots of combustion Will be direct throngh the opening in the central fine, tlnongh beneatn the reservoir, and ont the collar into the chirnney.

N is the reservoir, Which is provided With a fiange at the top, by which it is supported npon the top of the stove, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, and is provided centrally with a passage-way for the prod nets of combustion.

0 are reservoir-fine strips, which are arranged in the extension above the warmingcloset, and n'pon these strips the reservoir is snpported, as seen in Fig. 3, the strips being so arranged that they completely close the space npon each side of the fine beneath the reservoir, as seen in Fig. 3, so that the ashes and smoke cannot get into the space npon each side of the fine beneath the reservoir.

This fine beneath the reservoir commnnicates' with the interior of the collar, as seen in Fig. 1. This fine beneath the reservoir enables me to ntilize the heat of the products of combnstion to heat the water, increasing the heat ingsnrface, as will -be readily nnderstood. The reservoinfine strips prevent -the prodncts of combustion from getting beneath the reservoir upon the sides of the said fine, and hence the stove is rendered more durable, and the ashes cannot settle and accnmnlate to prevent or impede the draft, being carried ont by the draft throngh the reservoir-fine.

\Vhat I claim as new is- 1. The combination, With the stove havng an extension, of the reservoir-fine strips and a reservoir snpported npon said strips and havin g a passage-way for the products of combustion therethrongh horizontally from front to rear, as set forth.

2. The combination, with astove having an extension, of the reservoir-fine strips in said extension and dividing the same into three separated fines and the reservoirresting npon said strips With horizontal communication throngh one'of the compartments with the others olosed from the saine, as set; forth.

3. The combination, with the stove, of the.

strips forming middle and side fines along the back of and beneaLh the ovcn, the removable reservoir having horizontal passage beneath the same and extending f rom front to rear, and a damper arranged within the stove to regalate the passage of the products of combustion throngh either the central or the side fines, snbstantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix 1ny signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WHITE. lVitnesses:

C. C. HUNTINGTON, F. Z. BIONTEVERDE. 

